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Monday, March 28, 2016

Permaculture Fundamentals Cards

"All 21 cards of the Mollison Permaculture Ethics and Design Principles card set are now free to download from <www.permaculturefundamentals.com/>.
These are the original permaculture ethics and design principles from
the writings of Bill Mollison, the father of permaculture and developer
of the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC).

I first taught the PDC in
1993, and this arrangement of the original ethics and principles from
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Mollison 1988) and Introduction to
Permaculture (Mollison and Slay 1992) came about after many years
teaching permaculture and running permaculture projects. The cards are
organised into ethics, energy principles, component placement
principles, principles from nature, and attitudinal principles. It is
these attitudinal principles, which along with the ethics are the
'heart and soul' of permaculture, that are often missing from condensed
versions of the permaculture principles. The cards are designed to be
printed as 6x4 photos, as this is often the cheapest form of high
quality printing if you only want a small print run."